Eros

It is however Descartes’ ‘Cogito ero sum’ or ‘I think therefore I am’ that is most readily pulled into question. Kohn primarily draws upon various existing anthropological concepts, such as the significance of humans as ‘complex wholes,’ a concept put forward by E. B. Tylor (1871). According…

Personality is the dynamic organization within the individual of those psychophysical systems that determines the characteristics behavior and thought. Personality is also defined as the characteristics and behavior of a person that makes the person unique and different from other individuals. Personality identity defined through different views such as idiographic view and nomothetic view. Idiographic view assumes that each individual has a unique psychological structure and some characters are…

Experiential Art Therapy with the characters In A Dangerous Method Nikita Viswanath New York University - Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development Abstract Since I have started interning just a couple of weeks back, I have taken the movie “A Dangerous Method” by David Cronenberg to use my class readings – Transference and Countertransference which helped me understand the movie better from a psychoanalytical perspective. A Dangerous Method – Gist of the story In 1904 a…

Introduction The Greeks are well-known for their gods, and the stories of Greek Mythology. This is no surprise given the great collection of mythic statues coming from ancient Greece. In addition to mythology, the Greek artists also took great inspiration from Mesopotamia, and Egypt. Studying the sculptures of Ancient Greece in chronological order allows one to see the series of historical influences on which each period based their works. The most common themes throughout ancient Greek…

Many people through out history have achieved the impossible which is to be remembered thousands of years later after their death. In history, one could see a trend; famous people die young, the people who have made a difference in the world are always taken to early. Some people who have influence the world include, Freddie Mercury from the British Band Queen; he died from HIV and AIDS. His musical talents and voice is still remembered by people young and old. Anne Frank who died during the…

In American society a woman’s body is sexualized in the media. Beauty is an image that everyone strives for. There isn’t an exact definitions of beauty, it can be external and internal. What one sees as beauty another can view as ugly. Normally, women in ads/ TV are portrayed as sex symbols. There goals is to get as many buyers to indulge in a certain product and project an image that if you consume what I have you’ll look and feel beautiful. Over the course of class we have read many myths…

Discuss how dreams and desires function to define ‘identity’ in Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967). How do specific environments impinge on, or create opportunity for, the characters? How does this relate to the notion of making particular American movies, and putting America on the screen? Deconstructing identity into only two simplistic ideals, dreams and desires, is an extremely minimalistic approach to assessing the identity of characters within Bonnie and Clyde (Penn, 1967). Whilst the dreams…

So now, let us walk over to the three dimensional artworks of Rome. A Greek Hellenistic type of Aphrodite with Eros was adapted by the Romans to represent imperial women with their infants. As you can see here, we have the “Bust of a Woman”. This fine sculpture echoes the taste that the Romans inspired to have when making portraits of women. Can anyone tell me, what it is that the Romans inspired to create in their sculptures? “They wanted to create realism.” Yes, that is correct, in fact if you…

The Waste Land invokes a feeling of nostalgia for a time gone by coupled with a sense of dissonance for what the world has become. The last vestiges, like the fragments stand as reminders that we can never go back. This embrace of the fragmentation offers no resolve but rather demonstrates a sort of encumbered acceptance of the world as it is now with ever so brief glimpses of hope, which come and go. Even the structure of the poem itself is as presented as fragmentary, a reflection of the…

The room itself was grand and ancient, with walls of rough hewn stone, polished granite floors, and a ceiling as high as ten men. There were eight long tables, the shortest on a raised dais along the far wall, and seven more set orthogonal to the first and extending to the entry. Sheaves of wheat and sprays of spring blooms adorned the walls, and cornucopias spilled fruits, nuts and candies onto each table. There were dancers, at least a dozen of them, draped loosely in silks of gold and rich…